Improvement in fences



L. LEAVENWORTH.

Wire Picket Fastening.

Patented Oct. .30, 1849 N fills. Photo-lithograph. wnmn ton. D. C,

NITED STATES PATENT Erica.

LUOIUS LEAVENWVORTH, OF TRUMANSBURG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 6,831, dated October30, 1849.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUOIUS LEAVENWORTH, of Trumansburg, of the county ofTompkins and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Method ofFastening Pickets or Palings Together with W'ire to Make a Fence; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full and accurate descriptionof my invention,

reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, of which- Figure 1 is a view of the wire prepared forfastening the pickets. Fig. 2 is a view of the same, showing the mode ofsecuring the wire to posts. Fig. 3 is a view of a picket fence fastenedwith wire.

Similar letters indicate the same parts.

The nature of my invention consists of an arrangement of wire forconnecting pickets or palings together to make a fence for yards orfields, and of fastening the fence so constructed to posts set in theground, a method of making a fence which is strong, economical, andhandsome. 7

To enable others to understand and use my invention, I will now proceedto describe its construction and my mode of applying it.

I take brass or iron wire, which may be annealed or unannealed, althoughI prefer annealed wire of any suitable size adapted best to the picketsor palings of which the fence is to be made, say from No. 8 to No. 12,or thereabout, which wireI cut into proper lengths to connect together anumber of pickets sufficient to reach from one post to another,whichposts are to be set in the ground in the ordinary way of posts for afence, say from ten to fifteen feet apart, more or less, and having donethis, I then, in a wire-bending machine for which I have made anapplication for Letters Patent bearing even date with thisspecification, give to the wire aseries of coils or rings, (representedby the letter a in Fig. l of the accompanying drawings,) which rings areformed at equal distances from end to end of the length of wire, and aremade of any required diameter to enable them to pass over and fit snuglyupon the upper and lower ends of the pickets, as shown in Fig. 3.

As represented in Fig. 1, on one end of the length of wire thus preparedfor fastening the pickets together there is a hook, I), which is formedby turning the end in the same direction as the rings a, the inner sideof said book being exactly the distance from the center of the nearestring of one-half the distance from center to center of any two adjoiningrings; and, as represented in Fig. 2, at the other end of the length ofwire there is asmall coil or ring, 0, which is turned at right angles tothe plane of the hook b and the rings a, the inside of which small ringis precisely the same distance, measuring from the side next the end ofthe length of wire, from the center of the nearest ring a that the innerside of the hook b is from its nearest ring a. The hook I) and the ring0 being thus formed on each length of wire,when the fence is put up inthe manner subsequently described the hook on one length is inserted inthe ring on another length, and being drawn taut the rings a on the endsof the lengths so attached to each other will be equidistant with allthe other adjoining rings a, by which plan of uniting the lengths ofwire they are firmly secured to each other with great facility and easein constructing the fence and with entire uniformity in the distance ofthe pickets from each other.

As represented in Fig. 2, it will be seen also that between the tworings a nearest each end of the length of wire there is a small ring,dd, like the ring 0, at right angles to the plane of the rings a, andprecisely midway between the two end rings, as aforesaid. These smallrings at d are designed to receive the screws or nails for fastening thelengths of wire to the posts A, as shown at e e in Fig. 3.

Having prepared the wire in lengths and bent it into coils or rings, asdescribed, in my wire-bending machine, before referred to, the picketsare inserted in the rings a, and the posts being set in the ground atthe proper distances apart, to make a cheap, strong, and beautiful fenceit is only necessary to fasten the wire to the posts with nails orscrews through the rings d d on each length and to connect the hook bwith the ring 0 in the manner described. It will be observed, however,

that when the rings (1 d are made, as described, at each end of a lengthof wire it is only necessary to make them on one half the number neededfor making the fence, the other half being fastened only by the hooksand rings 1) and 0,- but the rings d may be made at one end the ring d,for securing the Wire to posts, and

only of the lengths of wire, in which case they the hooks b and c, forconnecting the pieces of will be required on all.- wire together inaline of fence, in the manner Having thus fully described my invention,substantially as herein set forth.

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent LUOIUSLEAVENWOR'IH.

Ihe mode of fastening picket 0r paling fences Witnesses: by means of aseries of links, a, formed on the E. WEED, wire for receiving andretaining the pickets, 1 CHARLES LOOMIS.

